On April 22, Earth Day 2021, Power Shift showed up at the Dept of State backing up Gulf Coast residents protesting oil and gas export-and the nearly 200 export pipelines rammed through their homelands.

With the State Department supporting oil and gas export (under Biden as under Trump), perhaps they should change their name to the "Dept of Snake," for serving up so many Black Snake pipelines. Before the die-in, speaker after speaker denounced the sacrifice of the lives of Gulf Coast residents to cancer and other diseases caused by oil spills and chemicals dumped into their home areas by the oil and gas industries. An Indigenous elder (featured on this video) gave the industry a particularily scathing review. He tied the current willingness to sacrifice lives to the ongoing genocide and colonialist theft and exploitation aimed at his people. In over 500 years, that does not seem to have changed.

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